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Portion of an organism's genome which contains a sequence of bases that could potencially decode a certain protein

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The ORF (open reading frame) of a gene is the portion of the gene that can be translated into a protein. It starts with a start codon (usually AUG) and ends with a stop codon (UAA, UAG, or UGA). Identifying the ORF is important for predicting the protein sequence encoded by a gene.

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